Method and System of Growing Living Organisms

Abstract

The present invention is related to a method of and a system for growing, maintaining, and/or harvesting living organisms such as plants and/or animals by controlling their physiology and lifetime according to sidereal time, preferably yet not necessarily in phase with sidereal time.

Claims

1-18. (canceled)

19. A method of growing, maintaining and/or harvesting multicellular living organisms by controlling their physiology and lifetime according to sidereal time, which is a reduction of about 4 minutes difference according to present time each day, for a total of about 24 hours every year.

20. The method according to the claim 19 of growing, maintaining and/or harvesting multicellular living organisms by controlling their physiology and lifetime in phase with sidereal time.

21. The method according to the claim 19, wherein the living organisms are plants.

22. The method according to the claim 19, wherein the living organisms are animals.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the animals are selected from the group consisting of poultry and domestic mammals.

24. The method of claim 22, which modify the sex ratio of new born population towards a higher female %.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the female % in the new born population of animals is higher than 75%.

26. The method according to the claim 24 wherein the female % in the new born population is higher than 90%.

27. The method according to the claim 19, wherein controlling of the multicellular living organisms physiology and lifetime are day-time and night-time lighting conditions of living organisms controlled according to the dynamic of the sidereal time.

28. The method according to the claim 27, wherein living organisms lighting conditions have different light source for desired time interval at desired intensity.

29. The method according to the claim 19, wherein the controlling of living organisms physiology and lifetime are feed or liquid administration to living organisms controlled by the dynamic of the sidereal time.

30. The method according to claim 19, wherein sidereal time is defined by a sidereal time setter selected from the group consisting of a sidereal clock, a sidereal watch or a sidereal chronometer.

31. A system for growing and/or harvesting multicellular living organisms in a controlled environment, which comprises a sidereal time setter for controlling physiology and lifetime of living organisms according to the dynamic of the sidereal time, which is a reduction of about 4 minutes difference according to present time each day, for a total of about 24 hours every year.

32. The system of claim 31, comprising a sidereal time setter for controlling physiology and lifetime of multicellular living organisms in phase with sidereal time.

33. The system according to the claim 31, wherein the sidereal time controls day-time/night-time lighting conditions of the multicellular living organisms.

34. The system according to the claim 31, wherein the sidereal time setter controls feed or liquid administration to the multicellular living organisms.

35. The system according to the claim 31, wherein the sidereal time setter is selected from the group consisting of a sidereal clock, a sidereal watch or a sidereal chronometer.

36. The system according to the claim 31, wherein the multicellular living organisms are plants.

37. The system according to the claim 31, wherein the multicellular living organisms are animals.

38. The system of claim 37, wherein the animals are selected from the group consisting of poultry or domestic animals

Description

EXAMPLE

[0022] The FIG. 2 represents Hy-Line Brown Parent Stock Performance Graph under solar-Standard (sSTD) & pseudo-Sidereal (pSRT) Lighting Programs (Hen-day egg production (%) according to age (Weeks). [0023] 30 Hy-Line Brown breeders (www.hyline.com) were submitted to a pseudo-sidereal lighting program according to the invention (4 min drift back in time dailyusing Hy-Line Light Program for Light-Controlled Housinghttp://sales.hyline.com/WebLighting/WebLighting.aspx), all other parameters (floor space allowance 13 birds/m.sup.2, 8 males/100 females, 16 hours light8 hours darkness, light intensity 30 Lux & spectra red-orange, feed/water access ad libitum, incubating & hatching egg care program, color sexing) kept constant.

[0024] As for laying hens, the anti-aging effect is observed and obvious on the hen's breeding performance (hen-day egg production) with no statistically observable differences noticed on mortality, body weight, feed consumption, average egg weight, and breeding quality (hatchability). The pseudo-sidereal lighting program according to the invention (4 min drift back in time daily) however induces an additional selective sexing advantage as all hatched chicks are unexpectedly female.

SUMMARY OF PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

[0025]

TABLE-US-00001 sSTD pSRT Hen-day egg production (%) @ 96/85/77 96/96/96 25/60/75 wk Average Hatchability (%) 78 78 Number of Female Chicks 0.5 1.0 Produced/Hatched Egg